I learned Italian one year, Spanish the next. I am now keeping up my Italian using Duolingo, but get confused. When reading either, I find it easy to translate back into English. But going the other way, from English, how do I remember which is which? I made a list in an A5 size notebook.
At the top of each page I listed words which are the same in all three languages. I then looked them up in google and AI.
The technical term is perfect cognates, words which have the same spelling and meaning. Here they are in alphabetical order. You can also find lists in Wikipedia
Words which are the same in English Spanish and Italian
English - Spanish - Italian
agenda - agenda - agenda
arena - arena - arena
banana - banana - banana
bar - bar - bar
blog - blog - blog
diva - diva - diva
gas - gas - gas
hotel - hotel - hotel
idea - idea - idea
Internet - internet - internet
judo - judo - judo
karaoke - karaoke - karaoke
ketchup - ketchup - ketchup
no - no - no
opera - opera - opera
or - o - o
patio - patio - patio
piano - piano - piano
pizza - pizza - pizza
puzzle - puzzle - puzzle
radio - radio - radio
solo - solo - solo
stop - stop - stop
taxi - taxi - taxi
video - video - video
yes - si - si
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